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Shaping the Lotus Sutra- Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China
Shaping the Lotus Sutra- Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China 評價
網友滿意度：
不論是在學生時期或開始工作後
我對語言一直都有難以言喻的嚮往~~
自英文的從國中啟蒙
能夠用其他語言的邏輯來思考事情
也是一件很有趣的一件事
跟一般人喜歡用吃吃喝喝出遊玩來打發時間
我更喜歡用書籍安靜的充實自己
所以特別跟大家推薦我目前在看的
Shaping the Lotus Sutra- Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China
非常好上手、條理分明
對於希望入門別太難的人很適合
而且這最大的成就感就是用新學的
語言查資料了XD
看自己key出之前完全不了解的文字或音
真的有滿滿的感動啊~~
希望推薦的這本書能夠讓大家都能
感受或得知識的喜悅!
一起讀書向前邁進吧!
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The Lotus Sutra has been the most widely read and most revered Buddhist scripture in East Asia since its translation in the third century. The miracles and parables in the 'king of sutras' inspired a variety of images in China, in particular the sweeping compositions known as transformation tableaux that developed between the seventh and ninth centuries. Surviving examples in murals painted on cave walls or carved in relief on Buddhist monuments depict celestial journeys, bodily metamorphoses, cycles of rebirth, and the achievement of nirvana. Yet the cosmos revealed in these tableaux is strikingly different from that found in the text of the sutra.Shaping the Lotus Sutra explores this visual world.
Challenging long-held assumptions about Buddhist art, Eugene Wang treats it as a window to an animated and spirited world. Rather than focus on individual murals as isolated compositions, Wang views the entire body of pictures adorning a cave shrine or a pagoda as a visual mapping of an imaginary topography that encompasses different temporal and spatial domains. He demonstrates that the text of the Lotus Sutra does not fully explain the pictures and that a picture, or a series of them, constitutes its own 'text.' In exploring how religious pictures sublimate cultural aspirations, he shows that they can serve both political and religious agendas and that different social forces can co-exist within the same visual program. These pictures inspired meditative journeys through sophisticated formal devices such as mirroring, mapping, and spatial programming - analytical categories newly identified by Wang.
The book examines murals in cave shrines at Binglingsi and Dunhuang in northwestern China and relief sculptures in the grottoes of Yungang in Shanxi, on stelae from Sichuan, and on the Dragon-and-Tiger pagoda in Shandong, among other sites. By tracing formal impulses in medieval Chinese picture-making, such as topographic mapping and pictorial illusionism, the author pieces together a wide range of visual evidence and textual sources to reconstruct the medieval Chinese cognitive style and mental world. The book is ultimately a history of the Chinese imagination.
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- 作者： Wang, Eugene Y.
- 原文出版社：Univ of Washington Pr
- 出版日期：2018/01/01
- 語言：英文
Shaping the Lotus Sutra- Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China
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